What is lab admin actually costing you?
A lot of lab time disappears into small, repetitive jobs. This calculator gives a conservative estimate of the time — and the value of that time — LevelSixLabs could hand back. Every assumption is visible and editable.
Where the time tends to go
Searching for chemicals & checking what's in stock
Hunting down the right SDS file
Coordinating who's using shared equipment
Chasing service dates and certificates
Re-ordering things nobody realised had run out
Pulling together sustainability evidence at deadline
Your lab
Drag the sliders. Defaults are deliberately conservative — adjust to your lab.
Estimated time recovered
248 hours / year
≈ 5 hours a week across the team, or about 33 working days a year handed back to science.
Estimated value of that time
£6,210 / year
Based on 46 working weeks and the hourly cost you set. This is staff time freed up — not a cash refund.
How this is calculated: 12 people × 1.5 h/week × 30% removed × £25/hour × 46 working weeks. No hidden multipliers — change any number above and the result follows.
This is an estimate, not a guarantee. It values time your team currently spends on admin that the platform reduces — it doesn't include avoided duplicate purchases, fewer missed services, or audit-prep time, which vary too much to model honestly. Your results depend on how your lab adopts it. The numbers it opens with are illustrative starting points, not measured averages — we have no published customer data yet, so put your own figures in.